Chapter 1552: Wurttemberg peasant uprising broke out

Marlin is also generous with this blacksmith elementary who is willing to trust himself. With a big wave of his hand, he directly gave senior shillings of 1 shilling a day, which was six times the daily salary of ordinary people and two or three times that of ordinary artisans.

Moreover, Marin is also willing to advance funds so that Gott will move the whole family to Beihai. The task that Marin gave him was to usually study how to improve the musket. If there are improvement results, Marin will not be stingy and generous rewards ...

After the news spread, the craftsmen in Nuremberg were boiling. They saw Marin's emphasis on craftsmen, and then a group of craftsmen came to Marin to live in a luxury hotel and then recommended themselves, hoping to be taken by Marin and go to Beihai to get a high salary. Of course, these are mostly young craftsmen. Or, the shop is poorly managed. If the industry tycoon earns more from his own shop, it is not uncommon to have a daily salary of 1 shilling. After all, the boss makes more money than this. Of course, the premise is that the shop business is good enough.

In the end, Marin chose five blacksmiths who were good at making guns in Nuremberg, two blacksmiths who were good at casting artillery, and one watchmaker who was good at making watches.

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When Marin ran to Nuremberg to recruit craftsmen, the Principality of Württemberg also changed dramatically. After Marin and his party left the Principality of Württemberg for Nuremberg, Ulrich, the Duke of Württemberg, officially turned his face, saying that the previous peasant rebel army's persecution of the Duke was illegal, unreasonable and a threat of violence. Therefore, Duke Ulrich announced that he had torn off all previous "humiliating promises" and restored the previous taxes ... And in order to appear reasonable, he also publicly revoked the position of the official responsible for negotiating with the farmers and said that the previous negotiations compromised him Without knowing ...

His decision suddenly angered the peasant and civic class. So, the caster Kasbar began to call on all members of the "Poor Conrad" to launch an armed uprising, forcing the Duke Ulrich to follow ...

However, for safety, the Duke of Württemberg sent a large number of people to guard Stuttgart and the royal palace before announcing the abolition of the previous agreement.

Therefore, the civic uprising led by Kasbar in the city was quickly suppressed. Even Kasbar and a bunch of his men were almost arrested.

In fact, the people of the Duke Ulrich had long noticed Kasbar's movements. Moreover, several of Ulrich's loyal followers also mixed with Kasbar. If it were not for the purpose of using Kasbar and others to exterminate the opposition nobles, Kasbar and others should have been almost killed by this time.

But in order to let them go outside the city to make waves, the Duke Ulrich sent the loyal men who were mixed into the "Poor Conrad" organization, pretending to **** Kasbar and others, "killing a blood" and rushing out of the city ...

And through this "fight", the few warriors sent by Duke Ulrich to be undercover also succeeded in gaining the trust of Kasbar and mixing into the core circle of "Poor Conrad". Because they are more able to fight, the self-proclaimed "heroes" have become important guards around Kasbar.

After escaping from the city, Casbal took his core team to an unremarkable little manor outside the city and contacted the core representatives of the poor Conrad organization in the countryside.

In the following days, the rural representatives of the "Poor Conrad" organization contacted members from all over the country, re-assembled seven or eight thousand farmers, and began the second uprising.

Kasbar, with eight thousand peasants, armed with various weapons, encircled Stuttgart fiercely. However, at this time Stuttgart was already standing by. The 3,000 defenders faced the strength of the 8,000 peasant uprisings and the surrounding wall, which made the peasant uprisings helpless.

Moreover, the citizens of the original uprising in the city were also resolved by the Duke Ulrich. Of course, it is not a repression, but a negotiated settlement. Duke Ulrich was reluctant to kill or sell those citizens. After all, the citizens in the city who are mainly craftsmen are an important source of his taxes. Because the goods produced by handicraftsmen are subject to tax when they are sold. The peasants, except the serfs in their own territory, basically do not pay him taxes.

Therefore, the Duke Ulrich, who had intended to pit the peasants, let the citizens of Stuttgart's riots go lightly this time, promising not to increase the taxes of the citizens. Then, the short-sighted citizen class decisively abandoned the peasant brothers and settled down to the people.

The "poor Conrad" peasant rebels attacked the city for several days, but they were unable to enter. After all, the three thousand mercenaries are not decoration. Even with a head-to-head confrontation, three thousand mercenaries can defeat eight thousand peasant troops.

After losing hundreds of people, Casball suddenly discovered that it seemed that the rations they brought would be used up ...

At this time, Duke Ulrich sent the undercover head Wolf (pseudonym Henry) lurking beside Kasbar suggested:

"Chief, since Stuttgart is difficult to overcome, and now there is a shortage of food, we might as well go to attack the manor of those nobles!"

"Manor of the nobleman? Why? Henry!"

"There is a lot of food in the noble man ’s manor! Moreover, there are war horses and armor in the noble man ’s house, including many weapons. Look at the leader, our peasant soldiers still hold **** and other simple weapons. If Having captured those manors, the weapons in the arsenal of the nobles and masters, do n’t they belong to us? Once we have those weapons and armor, as well as the war horses, our combat power can be greatly enhanced! Then, Duke Ulrich Even if we send troops to suppress them, we can defeat them. If we can defeat the Duke ’s army in the wild, is it easier than attacking a strong city like Stuttgart? "

When Casbal heard it, he felt very reasonable. But he still has some concerns:

"However, I heard that the defense power of those noble estates is still very strict. Will it be too much loss to attack those noble estates?"

Wolfe laughed:

"Don't you know the leader? It is said that Duke Ulrich mobilized a lot of noble private soldiers into the city some time ago, and it is estimated that we will be suppressing us. Now, most of the noble private soldiers are in the city. And the noble manor outside the city, It's empty at this time! Moreover, we have seven thousand or hundreds of people ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ When the time comes, attack those aristocratic manor houses without private soldiers, and you still haven't come to capture them? , Let's eat delicious wine and meat! Even, Miss Noble ... hehe ... "

Under the temptation of Wolfe, Casbal immediately made up his mind:

"Okay, we did it! So, where do we go first?"

Wolf pretended to think about it and said:

"My brother Charlie (also a pseudonym) was once in charge of investigating news in the tavern next to the military barracks in the city. He heard that many manors sent reinforcements. We just need to find those mansions according to the list of troops he sent to the city. , You can easily conquer those mansions without guards. At that time, the leader, you can order more wine and meat for our brother! And, those noble ladies, or young ladies ... hehe ... "

Casbal listened and began to drool. So he ordered:

"What are you waiting for? Lead the way!"

But Wolfe shook his head:

"We cannot retreat casually. If we retreat now, the Duke Ulrich will definitely send troops to pursue. So ..."

"So what?" Kasbar is an ironsmith and caster. Where do you understand this? I can only ask Henry (Wolf).

"Let ’s ambush! Tonight, we retreat overnight and retreat to the southwest of the Feyn Manor. There is a valley road over there. As long as we set up ambushes on both sides of the valley, we can defeat them after the soldiers come over. , Can even eliminate ... "

This was negotiated with Duke Ulrich before Marin-there are now about 2,000 private noblemen in Stuttgart. These people, as the loyal soldiers of the nobles to be removed by Duke Ulrich, are The future is also an object to be removed. Therefore, it is better to send them to the peasant army for extermination.